If there’s any secret sauce to leadership, we believe it’s the mix of intentions at the root of Orman’s success, a combination of high standards and shameless devotion. For many leaders, achieving this mix is impossible without giving up some comforting aspect of their existing public image. The nice ones will have to risk looking mean, and the hard ones will have to risk looking soft. But on the other side of these exposing positions is the chance to achieve a leader’s most fundamental task — to unleash the talent of the people around them.